PeachMan

PeachMan , 7 days ago

If you dislike these people, stop letting them live rent-free in your head. He got elected the first time because left-leaning media wouldn't stop attacking him, which just made conservatives love him more. Do you not see that the exact same thing is happening again? You know he's going to win, right? He's going to win, and it will be for the same stupid reasons.

PeachMan , 22 days ago (edited 22 days ago)

If you want a no-code solution, I recently created a homepage using GrapesJS (for free). I'm hosting it on Cloudflare Pages (for free). The whole setup was dead simple and almost completely free, I'm only paying for the domain.

EDIT: oops, that isn't technically self-hosted....but GrapesJS is a very cool tool for building a simple HTML website. Just make it looks like you want and it'll spit out all the files you need for hosting wherever your heart desires. Caddy, GitHub, whatever.

PeachMan , 1 month ago

epub2tts: https://github.com/aedocw/epub2tts

Looks like a project that utilizes coqui-AI: https://github.com/coqui-ai/TTS

PeachMan , 1 month ago

Looking for recommendations for a racecar, at least 800 horsepower. Needs to hit 60 mph in under 4 seconds.

My budget is $2000. Please give recommendations.

LOL

PeachMan , 1 month ago

If your budget is $150, then you need to look for used options on eBay. Look for Dell Optiplex or Lenovo ThinkCentre towers. You will not find specs that good in your price range. But maybe you can get a decent CPU and save money to upgrade your RAM later.

MAYBE you'll get lucky and find an old Dell server on eBay. Sometimes IT guys will sell their company's old server for a profit. But I personally wouldn't buy one of those, the monthly electricity costs are stupid.

PeachMan , 1 month ago

Yuuuup. I really don't understand why it's so popular. It's bloated and overly complex. I've tried running an instance twice in the past few years, and both times I gave up within a week.

PeachMan , 2 months ago

Sometimes these issues happen because of the IP range you're using. If your local network and your remote network both use the 192.168.x.x range, then there can be conflicts and issues like this. This is a thing that happens generally with VPNs, not sure how Tailscale specifically functions with this issue.

Even if that's not what's going on here, you might try setting up your remote node as an exit node, and configuring your local node to route all traffic through it. Theoretically that shouldn't be necessary, and it will also slow down your traffic if you're routing EVERYTHING through Tailscale. But it could work in a pinch.

Actually, I'm looking at Tailscale documentation now and I see that they recommend setting up subnet routers instead of exit nodes in most cases. Maybe go that route instead, that makes more sense to me. That way you're only routing necessary traffic through the remote node, rather than everything.

PeachMan , 2 months ago

It's pretty easy to do this with Cloudflare Tunnels. You can set them up to use a Google account for SSO. Downside of course is that you're reliant on Google and CF.

PeachMan , 2 months ago

You said you already have Blink cams, what about this thing? https://www.amazon.com/Blink-Sync-Module-2/dp/B084RQ6MHJ/
Stick in a flash drive and it's kinda like a DVR.

Ideal setup would be a proper DVR with proper IP cameras. Ethernet would be better but wireless is doable. I don't have enough knowledge to make a proper recommendation but people seem to like Reolink as an affordable option: https://reolink.com/us/product/rlk12-500wb4/

If you don't want to set up a DVR or spend all that money, there are plenty of cheap cameras that write to a microSD card, you could just buy a few of those and buy some massive SD cards that would allow you to record weeks worth of motion events. But of course reviewing all that footage will be a pain without a central DVR. I like my Tapo cameras, and Wyze is another popular brand.

PeachMan , 2 months ago

Why do you need to self-host a dedicated server? Just put AntennaPod on your phone.

PeachMan , 2 months ago

Lol no seriously, what's your goal here? Self-hosting a server seems entirely unnecessary.

If you want to host an RSS server, FreshRSS is easy to set up if you know how to do Docker stuff. Then, you could connect it to a podcast app on your phone. But all that seems very complicated when you could just install AntennaPod (which is open source), subscribe to a podcast's official RSS feed, and turn on notifications for that podcast. Adding an RSS server between your listening device and the original RSS server is unnecessary IMO, unless you have a use case that I'm not understanding.

PeachMan , 3 months ago

Wow, Humble has really gone downhill after being acquired. Make sure you change the default split, they've made it harder to find! There's an "Adjust Donation" button where you can choose to put more of your money to charity, rather than Humble and the book publisher.

By default, they're only giving the EFF ninety cents of your $18 purchase. That's insulting. And they still have the gall to put up a "leaderboard" for people that paid extra, but probably only 5% of their money went to charity if they didn't think to change the split. What assholes.

PeachMan , 3 months ago

but only for game servers

Why? I use tunnels for everything, all sorts of apps included. They're easy to set up, and reliable.

Tailscale is a good solution, though. I use that as well.

PeachMan , 3 months ago

They've had some security breaches, like most companies. If you're feeling paranoid, do some reading on nginx vulnerabilities.

Exposing your home servers to the Internet is always risky. There is no 100% safe way to do it.

PeachMan , 3 months ago

What features do you specifically want? You mentioned sandboxing. Anything else?

I'd say just keep it simple. If you're comfortable with Debian then stick with that, study up and learn how to harden it. Kali, ParrotOS, Mint, Ubuntu.....they're all just based on Debian with different preinstalled apps and desktop environments. Fedora and Arch are kinda weird and unique, I'm not sure if I'd recommend those for anyone, unless you KNOW that's what you need. Qubes seems interesting, I'm not familiar with that.

But I'll point out that ALL of these distros are miles ahead of Windows in terms of privacy. So just by using Mint for a while, you were already ahead of the curve.

PeachMan , 4 months ago

I don't have a great answer to your question, but you might be able to find a relatively cheap car that isn't "smart" and doesn't have a touchscreen or anything. Do they make those anymore? Then, you could add an aftermarket stereo receiver to it, like some of the options in this video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4t1GdI9UsEI

Yes, that's still a "smart" stereo but it's NOT connected to any of the car manufacturer's metrics or systems, right? So the separation makes it seem more privacy-friendly to me. I could be thinking about this incorrectly, but it seems logical to me. There might be some stereo receivers that are more private than others, but you'd have to do your own research for that.

PeachMan , 4 months ago

Damn, I'm looking around and don't see any, even the cheapest Toyotas and Kias have a big touchscreen with Android and CarPlay. I'm not sure what happens if you take that out and replace it with an aftermarket receiver, but it appears to be possible because Crutchfield sells receivers for a 2024 Corolla: https://www.crutchfield.com/g_473950/Digital-Multimedia-Video-Receivers.html

I'm also seeing people online saying that there are cars made for businesses that still come with no "smart" features. But I have no clue how you would buy one of those, I doubt they have them at dealerships: https://www.reddit.com/r/whatcarshouldIbuy/comments/124n5qw/what_cars_less_than_5_years_old_are_recommended/

Or, you could just get a used car, save some money, and check all the low-tech boxes.

PeachMan , 5 months ago

Also, in public bathrooms where toilets might be occupied or dirty, I'm betting that a lot more people stand at the urinal just so they can pee and get the hell out. I'd like to see the answer to whether or not men sit down to pee WHEN THEY'RE AT HOME. That seems like a good way to actually get a sense of what men prefer.

PeachMan , 6 months ago

Check out their quick start guide here, it looks very helpful to me: https://github.com/overleaf/toolkit/blob/master/doc/quick-start-guide.md

I would guess that you need to learn more about Docker usage in general, rather than just looking for a Docker Compose file (which is here, by the way). I'm kind of on a similar journey, and what I've learned so far is that you (usually) can't just copy and paste a Compose script and go. It helps a lot to understand the basics of what you're doing.

I found this video helpful, but others might have better suggestions: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pg19Z8LL06w

Also, I'd like to point out that Overleaf's hosting and pricing options are quite reasonable, especially if you're working for a university or institution: https://www.overleaf.com/user/subscription/plans

PeachMan , 8 months ago

Looks cool. But it seems like it's just somebody else's server acting as a proxy for you, right? So I'd want to know the same things about them that I'd ask of any proxy service. Where are their servers? Do they keep logs? What's their privacy policy?

Regarding it being free, I see that they're serving ads and asking for donations. So the service clearly costs money to run. I doubt it stays free forever, and I hope those servers aren't US based. 😬

PeachMan , 8 months ago

It's possible, but the fact that they're also asking for donations makes me think that they're not getting enough money from ads. Also, if this site gets popular and gains a reputation, most advertisers won't touch piracy websites. So the only ads they'll get are weird porn sites and male enhancement pills that don't pay very much.

Also, I don't want to have a theory on where the servers are, I want to KNOW where the servers are. If they're not being transparent about that, then my honeypot sense is tingling.

PeachMan , 8 months ago

Basically, you're routing your traffic through their servers so you want to know if you can trust them. Anything that goes through a proxy server or VPN server, the owner of that server can see EVERYTHING you're doing. The most popular VPN providers will submit to third-party audits so that we can be (relatively) certain that they don't keep logs of what you download and hand them over to the authorities.

Generally, if it's free, you don't want it. You already know the rule: if it sounds good to be true, it usually is. You're telling me that somebody is spending their own money to run a server? Servers are not cheap. AND they're going to protect me when the police come knocking? All for free??? I smell bullshit.